www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Winston Churchillhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/winston-churchill/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Winston Churchillen-usWed, 08 Jul 2015 19:01:07 -0400BOOK REVIEW: 'Churchill and the Generals'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/8/book-review-churchill-and-the-generals/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CHURCHILL AND THE GENERALS: 1939-45</p> <p>By Mike Lepine</p> <p>Danann Books/Trafalgar Square, $55, 135 pages, illustrated</p> <p>Even if you've read umpteen books about Winston Churchill and even if you think you already know enough about the wartime leader's relationship with his generals, you may still want to read this book by ...Martin RubinWed, 08 Jul 2015 19:01:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/8/book-review-churchill-and-the-generals/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS Winston Churchill Dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/winston-churchill-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The ties between Hillsdale College and Winston Churchill run deep.</p> <p>Dr. Larry Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College, and his wife, Penny, spent their early years working on the Churchill Project with Sir Martin Gilbert, doing research for the official Churchill narrative biography and accompanying documents. Since the death of ...Hillsdale College and Katie Beemer - Hillsdale CollegeWed, 27 May 2015 14:30:06 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/winston-churchill-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/12/book-review-ministers-at-war-winston-churchill-and/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>MINISTERS AT WAR: WINSTON CHURCHILL AND HIS WAR CABINET</p> <p>By Nathan Schneer</p> <p>Basic Books, $29.99, 323 pages</p> <p>How nervous was an unprepared Great Britain about a possible German invasion in 1940? The fears were made plain in a memo that Winston Churchill sent to the War Office soon after being ...Joseph C. GouldenTue, 12 May 2015 16:31:06 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/12/book-review-ministers-at-war-winston-churchill-and/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSJAMES ROBERTS: Remembering V-E Dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/7/james-roberts-remembering-v-e-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Seventy years ago on Friday, Winston Churchill, stood on a balcony of London's Whitehall, gazed down at the surging, cheering crowd celebrating the surrender of Nazi Germany.</p> <p>"This is your victory," he declared.</p> <p>"No," the crowd shouted. "It's yours."</p> <p>They were both right, of course. The British people, worn down ...James C. RobertsThu, 07 May 2015 17:07:06 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/7/james-roberts-remembering-v-e-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWESLEY PRUDEN: Obama reveals Israel’s nuclear programhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/26/wesley-pruden-obama-reveals-israels-nuclear-progra/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</strong></p> <p>President Obama says Rudy Giuliani was wrong. He does, too, love America. That's good enough for me. He says he's a Christian, despite his constant love bombs for Islam, and if that's good enough for God it's good enough for me, too. Conversations between believers and the Almighty are ...Wesley PrudenThu, 26 Mar 2015 19:36:04 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/26/wesley-pruden-obama-reveals-israels-nuclear-progra/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPETER HANNAFORD, ROBERT ZAPESOCHNY: Netanyahu-Herzog coalition for Israelhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/15/peter-hannaford-robert-zapesochny-netanyahu-herzog/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>In Israel's election March 17, the two contenders for prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog, have one thing in common: Both are admirers of Winston Churchill.</p> <p>Israel could use a Churchill. He wasn't a great leader just because he gave memorable speeches; he was a great leader because he ...Peter Hannaford and Robert ZapesochnySun, 15 Mar 2015 16:58:06 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/15/peter-hannaford-robert-zapesochny-netanyahu-herzog/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSInside the Beltway: Restless Republicans want more conservative candidateshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/2/inside-the-beltway-republicans-want-more-conservat/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>"Democrats tend to be happy with the ideology of their current candidates, but Republicans want GOP candidates to become more conservative," reports <strong>Peter Moore</strong>, an analyst for YouGov polls, which has the handy numbers to prove it.</p> <p>The pollster finds that 46 percent of Republicans want their candidates to be ...Jennifer HarperMon, 02 Mar 2015 22:13:05 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/2/inside-the-beltway-republicans-want-more-conservat/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSTHOMAS DIBACCO: Obama's naivete over Iran trumps reality http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/22/thomas-dibacco-obamas-naivete-over-iran-trumps-rea/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>It's ironic that President Obama's hope for a political framework agreement on nuclear issues with Iran by March 31 coincides with the diplomatic hope of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 70 years ago in a March 1 speech before Congress. That hope was to trust the Soviet Union at the recently ...Thomas V. DiBaccoSun, 22 Feb 2015 18:41:03 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/22/thomas-dibacco-obamas-naivete-over-iran-trumps-rea/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSROBERT KNIGHT: Obama blames economics for terrorism, gives Islamist killers a passhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/22/robert-knight-obama-blames-economics-for-terrorism/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>We can put to rest the notion that State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf committed a gaffe when she said that more jobs would keep Islamic militants from their genocidal mission.</p> <p>Following the Islamic State's beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya, she said: "We cannot win this war by killing ...Robert KnightSun, 22 Feb 2015 18:34:06 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/22/robert-knight-obama-blames-economics-for-terrorism/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/2/book-review-the-churchill-factor-how-one-man-made-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>THE CHURCHILL FACTOR: HOW ONE MAN MADE HISTORY</p> <p>By Boris Johnson</p> <p>Riverhead, $27.95, 384 pages</p> <p>Winston Churchill's reputation for intellect, industry and obduracy so precedes him that almost nothing now written about this blunderbuss of a man any longer surprises us. His paintings now sell for over 1 million British ...David WilezolMon, 02 Feb 2015 17:53:07 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/2/book-review-the-churchill-factor-how-one-man-made-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSCAL THOMAS: Winston Churchill, a man for all timeshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/21/cal-thomas-winston-churchill-man-all-times/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>It is an old debating point: Do the times make the man, or does the man make the times? In the case of Winston Churchill, whose death 50 years ago Saturday the British are remembering with more than nostalgia, it is both.</p> <p>The times in Churchill's case were both World ...Cal ThomasWed, 21 Jan 2015 18:44:24 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/21/cal-thomas-winston-churchill-man-all-times/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'Operation Sea Lion: The Failed Nazi Invasion that Turned the Tide of the War'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/18/book-review-operation-sea-lion-the-failed-nazi-inv/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>OPERATION SEA LION: THE FAILED NAZI INVASION THAT TURNED THE TIDE OF THE WAR</p> <p>By Leo McKinstry</p> <p>Overlook Press, $32.50, 392 pages, illustrated</p> <p>The Nazi invasion of England &mdash; code-named "Operation Sea Lion" &mdash; so widely anticipated in the wake of the precipitate fall of France in June 1940 is ...Martin RubinSun, 18 Jan 2015 16:42:08 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/18/book-review-operation-sea-lion-the-failed-nazi-inv/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLOVERRO: Never in the field of QB conflict were so many confused by so fewhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/26/never-in-field-of-qb-conflict-were-so-many-confuse/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION: </strong></p> <p>Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden is either a mad genius, or else we were watching him have a bit of a breakdown this week.</p> <p>Not having a quarterback when you thought you had two of them can do that.</p> <p>Gruden's decision on who will start at quarterback Monday ...Thom LoverroSun, 26 Oct 2014 15:33:05 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/26/never-in-field-of-qb-conflict-were-so-many-confuse/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS10 powerful mantras to help you when you're downhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/20/10-powerful-mantras-to-help-you-when-youre-down/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Ultimately, each of us is responsible for our own happiness. Sometimes it&#039;s easy to be happy, but the challenges of life often make happiness seem elusive. One way to keep going even when things are difficult is to think positively. Mantras can help. Here are 10 phrases to motivate and ...Amy PetersonMon, 20 Oct 2014 11:39:22 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/20/10-powerful-mantras-to-help-you-when-youre-down/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBURTON: Now is the time for Obama to stand up against ISIShttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/22/burton-now-is-the-time-to-stand-up/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Tough times never last, but tough people do. So said Robert Schuller. However, tough times show who the tough men are, and dangerous times compel those tough men to stand up and take action. Now is perhaps the most dangerous time the world has faced since World War II. Like ...Dan BurtonMon, 22 Sep 2014 19:01:09 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/22/burton-now-is-the-time-to-stand-up/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBUCHANAN: Behind the sinking of the Lusitaniahttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/2/buchanan-behind-sinking-lusitania/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>About how America became involved in certain wars, many conspiracy theories have been advanced &mdash; and some have been proved correct.</p> <p>When James K. Polk got his declaration of war as Mexico had "shed American blood upon the American soil," Rep. Abraham Lincoln demanded to know the exact spot where ...Patrick BuchananTue, 02 Sep 2014 15:53:14 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/2/buchanan-behind-sinking-lusitania/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'The Literary Churchill'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/book-review-chasing-churchill-in-the-wrong-directi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>THE LITERARY CHURCHILL: AUTHOR, READER, ACTOR<br />By Jonathan Rose<br />Yale University Press, $35, 528 pages, illustrated</p> <p>The character and career of Sir Winston Churchill are both so protean that it is not surprising that there have been studies of the great man emphasizing innumerable aspects, running the gamut from military ...Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington TimesThu, 17 Jul 2014 08:14:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/book-review-chasing-churchill-in-the-wrong-directi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSThere are a lot of virtues to small-home livinghttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/5/there-are-a-lot-of-virtues-to-small-home-living/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Winston Churchill understood the importance of the built environment. In a speech to the House of Commons, he said, &ldquo;We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a clever way of saying that our homes have a profound impact on our lives.</p><p>When I was first married, my husband ...Natalie GochnourThu, 05 Jun 2014 14:16:37 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/5/there-are-a-lot-of-virtues-to-small-home-living/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSQuoting Winston Churchill's criticism of Islam contributes to U.K. politician's arresthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/29/quoting-winston-churchills-criticism-islam-contrib/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Quoting Winston Churchill's opinions on Islam contributed to a U.K. politician's arrest &mdash; and possible imprisonment of up to two years.</p> <p>Paul Weston, chairman of the party Liberty GB, was making a speech Saturday outside the Winchester Guildhall in Hampshire, when he quoting the famous prime minister, the Independent <a ...Douglas Ernst Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:42:57 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/29/quoting-winston-churchills-criticism-islam-contrib/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSCHARLES: The growing global storm of authoritarianismhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/charles-the-growing-global-storm/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A strange cyclone is building worldwide, one worth seeing clearly and placing in historical perspective. By region and nation, there is an odd, centripetal pull toward concentrating power in authoritarian leaders, a drift toward autocracy.</p> <p>More troubling, this trend is occurring against the backdrop of rising nationalism. We have seen ...Robert CharlesFri, 04 Apr 2014 18:58:11 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/charles-the-growing-global-storm/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS